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Book SynopsisMuqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources. Muqarnas 29 features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region.
Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Gülru Necipoğlu, VISUAL COSMOPOLITANISM AND CREATIVE TRANSLATION: ARTISTIC CONVERSATIONS WITH RENAISSANCE ITALY IN MEHMED II’S CONSTANTINOPLE Cristelle Baskins, THE BRIDE OF TREBIZOND: TURKS AND TURKMENS ON A FLORENTINE WEDDING CHEST, CIRCA 1460 Ana Pulido-Rull, A PRONOUNCEMENT OF ALLIANCE: AN ANONYMOUS ILLUMINATED VENETIAN MANUSCRIPT FOR SULTAN SÜLEYMAN Suzan Yalman, ʿALA AL-DIN KAYQUBAD ILLUMINATED: A RUM SELJUQ SULTAN AS COSMIC RULER Matthew D. Saba, ABBASID LUSTERWARE AND THE AESTHETICS OF ʿAJAB Jasmin Badr and Mustafa Tupev, THE KHOJA ZAINUDDIN MOSQUE IN BUKHARA Ünver Rüstem, THE AFTERLIFE OF A ROYAL GIFT: THE OTTOMAN INSERTS OF THE SHĀHNĀMA-I SHĀH̛Ī Edhem Eldem, MAKING SENSE OF OSMAN HAMDI BEY AND HIS PAINTINGS Notes and Sources Pierre Siméon, HULBUK: ARCHITECTURE AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CAPITAL OF THE BANIJURIDS IN CENTRAL ASIA (NINTH–ELEVENTH CENTURIES)
